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Health & Wellness in 2013

This is part three of our previous communications found here, and here with regard to the exciting wellness benefits offering which began on January 1, 2013. In this installment of the wellness benefit communication you ...
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Benefit Deduction Holiday 1/4/13

With 2012 drawing to completion our benefits and payroll teams are hard at work preparing for the upcoming benefit year. 2013 will have 53 payroll cycles, and this makes it an odd year because our benefit deductions are ...
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Health & Wellness in 2013

By this time you should have received information in the mail outlining the exciting wellness initiatives FirstFleet is making available in 2013. This blog entry builds upon the previous posting (found here), and it is o...
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Happy Holidays 2012

  The holiday season is a time to gather with family and friends to reflect upon the blessings in our lives. If I were to pause and ask each of you for one thing you were thankful for I am...
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Health & Wellness in 2013

If you’ve been watching the news lately, you know that there is a lot going on in the world of health care and health insurance.  As we are all aware, the costs of health care have risen steadily over the last sever...
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DVIR Process Update

FirstFleet Drivers: Thank you for doing a great job as we are implementing electronic logs and electronic DVIRs. It has been a learning process for all of us, and we appreciate all of your efforts as we work out any kink...
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Making Turns Safely

Making turns in a tractor trailer is something that needs perfecting through practice and patience.  Practice comes from doing it…the daily honing of critical skills necessary for the job....
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Electronic Logs - Halfway Point

NEWS Today marks an important day for our company – we are happy to announce that we have passed the half-way point with the implementation of electronic hours of service. There is no doubt you have in one ...
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Thanksgiving 2012

We know that this season is a particularly busy time for professionals employed in our industry, and we are grateful for your service and hard work to meet the needs of our business partners with excellence. We hope that...
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November - Deer Watch

Deer strikes are up over 8% in the past twelve months!    November is the peak month for deer strikes. There is an estimated 20 million animals in deer herds currently. To help avoid a...
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Veterans Day 2012

  We would like to extend a special thanks to all of the Veterans and their families on this Veterans Day.  With the sacrifices made by both the present and past Veterans and their families our cou...
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Quarterly Safety Bonus Payments

As communicated via blog earlier this week and via email to all managers a few weeks ago, the quarterly safety bonus payments to our drivers changed to a direct deposit process this week and are included in the drivers' ...
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Backing Safely

As delivery drivers, backing is something we must do every day.  Almost all backing accidents are preventable!  GOAL…Get Out And Look, is the best way to pr...
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Recognize Fatigue

  A large part of Fatigue is Drowsiness, which is the last step before falling asleep…not the first. Drowsiness means you are seconds away from falling asleep; you must p...
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Quarterly Safety Bonus

As another step in the Payroll process of going paperless and to make it more convenient for our drivers to access their bonus pay, we will be converting the quarterly safety bonus payments to direct deposit effective wi...
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